Limitless 2006

Take a look at the streaming of the conferences of Share Festival 2006 Limitless.
Thanks to the TOPIX Consortium you can see the Share 2006 conferences in streaming video that were made by the students of the Accademia Albertina and directed by Alessandro Tannoia.

The theme of the 2006 Festival, held on occasion of the Torino 2006 XX Winter Olympics, during the Paralympic Games, was the idea of the Limitless, or the crossing of the ultimate limit. In the information technology society, this theme is the subject of an engaging intellectual debate animating research into technology. Network communications, virtual reality, intelligent environments, but also open source code, the copyright/copyleft distinction, and the Creative Commons license are the new technological and legal contexts in which we are now learning to live together, designed as they are to overcome the space-time dimension, overcome physicality, overcome the constraints of the body, and overcome the digital divide.

Thanks to the TOPIX Consortium you can see the Share 2006 conferences in streaming video that were made by the students of the Accademia Albertina and directed by Alessandro Tannoia.
TOMORROW NOW: PROBLEMS OF ORIENTATION
2006, March 09 Thursday | 14:00
Stefano Coletto
(Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa – Tomorrow Now)

Tomorrow Now is the title of a recent book by Bruce Sterling in which the American author proposes and investigates certain themes which portray the near future.
From this idea and with the willingness of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation Tomorrow Now – Contemporary Art in the Digital Culture was born, a project that explores how digital culture is influencing present-day transformations and how contemporary art is dealing with these transformations.
Such a project has posed many questions at curatorial, theoretical and organizational levels. Thus, it is hard to avoid an open discussion that reintroduces the problems of orientation in the immense database surrounding us.

CONNECTIVE ARCHITECTURE: MOTOR OF CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
2006, March 09 Thursday | 18:00
Derrik De Kerckhove and Pino Zappalà.

The connective architecture is basic for cultural development of a Region like Piemont. Derrik De Kerckhove will analize this issue during intervention and meeting with the Istitution.

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FROM THE URN TO THE URL. REFLECTIONS ON DEMOCRACY, PARTICIPATING, STATE AND VIOLENCE
2006, March 10 Friday | 15:00
Antonio Caronia

Beyond real democracy, then, is some other form of politics to look for.” With these words Jean-Luc Nancy raises a question that has been set several times over the last few years by the new social movements (not last – the question of TAV in Val di Susa and Piedmont) and Davide Grassi is getting back to work, Demokino.
It could even be that a term – by now misused – like “democracy” no longer expresses the increasing need to participate expressed by individuals and social and local groups.New political forms and new citizen lifestyles and participation must perhaps be sought – more consistent though to the human global condition in the XXI century.

THE LIMIT OF WRITING
2006, March 11 Saturday | 17:00
by Fabrizio Vespa
Roberto Tos, Enrico Sola, Axell, Max Bellarosa, Pixel Pancho.The limit – or better limits – of writing are one side of a manifold series of reflections and interpretations.
The idea of the meeting then is to play on the concept of limit through individualizing some extreme, very contemporary,symbols of writing or graphic language.
These include: the world of blogs. The online diaries are widespread and launch the web towards a new spring.

HYPER-SURFACES
2006, March 11 Saturday | 18:30
Davide De Rossi and Christoph Wagner.

What relationship can architecture have with a pervasive culture of the immaterial represented by images and sensorial factors that are strengthened by techno-computing? A good example is the 1350 square meter media-installation “SPOTS” in Berlin designed by realities.united and Christoph Wagner as project-architect. It is an exhibition that pursues a unique concept: an office building on Potsdamer Platz is being transformed into a seeing object.

TWELVE YEARS OF SONAR: A BET FOR ELECTRONIC CULTURE WITHOUT LIMIT.
2006, March 12 Sunday | 15:00 | 15:00
Oscar Abril Ascaso

The Barcellona international festival of advanced music and multimedia art was created in the year 1994. Even if the main event is music, Sonar is also an important show in the panorama of the latest artistic tendencies linked to new technologies. Over the last two editions, SonarMatica the largest exhibition area in the festival, has concentrated on projects dedicated to phenomena connected to the XXI century micro-nations and scenes.
Another interesting area is the one called SonarRama that is an interesting stage concentrated on the evolution of digital art.

NOMINATION AWARD A TRANSMEDIALE 2006 WITH “GOOGLE WILL EAT ITS SELF”
2006, March 12 Sunday | 16:00 | 15:00
Hans Bernhard, Paolo Cirio e Alessandro Ludovico.

Commercial Autocannibalism, (GWEI – Google Will Eat Itself) We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself – but in the end “we” own it!

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NEW ARTISTIC PARADIGMS
2006, March 11 Saturday | 14:00
Mario Canali

ABSTRACT INFORMATION: The virtual paradigm: Information, Technologies, Reality and Imaginary. Abstraction and Experience.
SCIENCE: 20th century science and new views of the world: relativity, indecision, and involvement of the observer. COMPLEX SYSTEMS and determinist unpredictability.
RETROACTION CYCLES and emerging configurations.
AESTHETICS. Artistic experience and interactive installations: emotional involvement, sensorial interfaces, synaesthetic elaborations, significant coincidences.
Form emerging as a result of interaction processes.
THE NEW OPUS.

the meaning of limit
Sunday 12 – 18:30
by Pino Zappalà
withRoberto Saracco (Tilab)
Aldo Fasolo (neuroscienziato)
Motor (artista e informatico)
Gian Alberto Farinella (professore di Estetica)
Alessandro Isaia (Toroc)
Giuseppe Vercelli ( Psicologo dello sport)
Franco Pastrone ( matematico)

The sense of limit is frequently connoted by tension, as if near to a boundary. These can sometimes be resolved through good relationships, or maybe by accepting the limit or even going beyond it. The limit is not the end – it very often represents a new beginning that, after temporary disorientation, reveals new landscapes and opportunities. What is the limit in art?>>>temporary offline

DIGITAL MEDIA FOR THE MAINTENANCE, PRESERVATION AND (RE)INTERPRETATION OF ARTISTIC PRODUTIONS
Friday 10 – 16:30
Andrea De Pasquale (Regional Office of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Landscapes)
Massimo Ferronato. Luca Lampo (EPIDEMIC )
Vincenzo Lombardo (University of Torino VR&MM Park)
Antonio Rava (Albertina Fine Arts Academy)
Sergio Toffetti (National Film Library – Roma)

This round table will discuss the theme of the preservation, maintenance and reinterpretation of artistic works in the contemporary age through digital media. Contemporary works present a variety of media techniques that require strong interdisciplinary skills and specific peculiarities in describing their exhibition. According the relative sector, preservation and maintenance issues have been met with specific methodologies that could benefit from intercommunications. The speakers will share their experiences in sectors like cinema, videoart, and net.art, music, cataloguing cultural treasures, contemporary art, and multimedia installations.

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PRESENTATION AWARD 2007
Friday 10 – 12:00
Andrea Bairati (Local Office of Innovation)
Vicente Matallana (producer)
Juan Carlos De Martin
Guido Bolatto
Simona Lod
i (artistic director)

Official presentation of SHARE PRIZE 2007, a prize was what Share Festival needed.
What a Festival without a contest?

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: A LIMIT OR AN INCENTIVE FOR CREATIVITY?
Saturday 11 – 15:00
Simone Aliprandi (Copyleft-italia.it)

A reflection/debate on the new role that copyrights and patents may assume in today’s digital and interconnected world. Presented and coordinated by Simone Aliprandi, head of theCopyleft-italia.it project and author of several books on opensource culture and new distribution models for inventions.

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